Friday, June 30, 2017

We have grown frustrated with newer Google Search algorithms which seem to produce more and more first page search results that we do not want and which appear geared to the lowest common denominator of interest, or perhaps to ad money, we do not know.

To our surprise -- in fact, thinking recently that the demise of Yahoo was imminent -- we have now run several subjective, personal and non-disclosable search tests with various search engines and have found to our amazement that Yahoo Search currently appears to deliver what we subjectively call "better" viz. "more relevant" search results in numerous cases -- at least for the topics in which we have an interest....

You may of course not share that view.

However, we are switching away from Google Search as perhaps having hit its peak and now possibly finding itself sliding downhill in terms of performance.

Also the "green" search engine Ecosia, "Plant trees while you search the web", appears to be quite good in returning useful search results -- results that appear similar to Yahoo Search, so we are going to give Ecosia some search action in the future. Try it out.

Fed up with the increasingly invasive practices of the standard browsers, we have also just tried out Maxthon MX5 as an alternative fast, secure and ad-free browser.

It looks good.

We nevertheless remain fans of the Pale Moon browser which bills itself as "Your browser, Your way". Pale Moon was forked some years ago from Firefox and retains the original genius of Mozilla Firefox, which was that the USER -- not the programmers -- should decide how the browser was to function, a laudable goal long lost at Mozilla Firefox.

Pale Moon has numerous features that we need, such as the ability to place TABS below the URL line and just above the pages we are viewing. What WE are doing has FIRST PRIORITY on OUR screen, not what other people are doing. Our interest is online research the way WE want it, and not speed surfing, or similar....

Grand Valley State of Allendale, Michigan won the NCAA Division II title for the third straight year, Williams College of Williamstown, Massachusetts won the NCAA Division III title for the fourth straight year, while Lindsey Wilson College of Columbia, Kentucky won the NAIA title.

The SkyWatcher Pocket Racer quadrocopter can be ordered online but must be picked up at a Mueller.de general market store of choice (toy department). For us, it was a shopping deal for obtaining at a bargain price one of the new generation of camera "mini-drones".

For comparison, the SkyWatcher Pocket Racer is listed by a shop in Amazon.de at a price of ca. €108 (plus free delivery).

Here are the specs via online material in the original German as well as our edited version of the Google translation:

Thus far, in our opinion, this beats the competition as regards quality and price. However, we make no statements or guarantees about drone performance or suitability to purpose.

Caveat emptor. Buyer beware.

After all, this is a toy.... but nevertheless potentially dangerous, especially to children (and adults!) of all ages, due to freely open, otherwise unprotected fast-spinning rotor blades as well as the use of lithium batteries. You have to read the manual (!), follow its instructions and know what you are doing!!

Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Germany's apprentice programs are fabulously successful. The Trump Administration's apprenticeship initiative makes great sense given the example of the German model. See the report at Forbes. This is one way the Trump Administration is surely moving America forward.

Friday, June 16, 2017

This unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision (8-0) in an opinion written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, an expert on gender equality law, is a sign of the political, legal and social contemporary times. The decision is also a matter of clear judicial logic and decisionmaking regarding the issue presented,
which was
the constitutionality of the different treatment of citizenship of children born overseas, based on whether the unwed parent was the father or the mother.

SCOTUS ruled that Congress must enact a law treating both genders equally as regards the citizenship of children born overseas to unwed parents.

"Ginsburg said the law was based on flawed and outdated assumptions about men and women that pervaded the country's citizenship laws: "In marriage, husband is dominant, wife subordinate; unwed mother is the natural and sole guardian of a nonmarital child."

For close to a half century, she [Ginsburg] said, the court "has viewed with suspicion laws that rely on overbroad generalizations about the different talents, capacities or preferences of males and females." Ginsburg said the gender line Congress drew "is incompatible with the Constitution's guarantee of the equal protection of the laws to all persons.""

The (virtually) unanimous 8-0, 7-1 May 30, 2017 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark opinion written by Chief Justice Roberts holds that the patent exhaustion doctrine applies to all products sold, domestically and abroad (Ginsburg dissenting on the latter), and that patents can thus not be used to circumvent the first sale doctrine.

Our previous analysis was thus once again proven correct, as it has been for many years in predicting U.S. Supreme Court reversals of what we have regarded to be clearly erroneous Federal Circuit Court decisions in the patent sphere.

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